Hillary Clinton's Bizarre Remarks to PPFA

Today's News & Views
March 30, 2009

I have to tell you I thought I had heard every out-of-left-field justification for slaughtering unborn babies imaginable. Until last Friday, that is, when I learned that ripping arms from the torsos of the little ones not only funnels millions of dollars into the war chest of Planned Parenthood, it is also a critical component in defeating Al-Qaida!

To be fair, when receiving PPFA's "highest award," pro-abortion Secretary of State Hillary Clinton can perhaps be forgiven for making even less sense than usual. There she was, at the annual conference of the nation's largest abortion "provider," receiving the Margaret Sanger award, in honor of the founder of PPFA. What could make everyone feel better at the Houston gala than to be told that directing "family planning" money into the hands of groups who never tire of finding new populations to thin out is an "indispensable ingredient of [the Obama Administration's use of smart power"?

A further example of "smart power" of which she "was very proud" Clinton said, was "when President Obama repealed the Mexico City policy." Opening the sluices to allow tax dollars to pour into the hands of militant pro-abortionist certainly enhances the power of the International Abortion Establishment, but smart it is not.

The best way to understand Clinton's logic is to read her speech right to left, as if it were written in Chinese. Somewhere in the midst of a sea of non sequiturs Clinton launched the idea that obliterating unborn babies in the developing world is connected to defeating terrorism, bizarre even by her stream-of-consciousness lights..

The operative paragraph goes as follow: "I want to assure you that reproductive rights and the umbrella issue of women's rights and empowerment will be a key to the foreign policy of this Administration." 

Abortion and birth control and education and the right to vote all fall under the same "umbrella." Each one is, as Clinton said, part of "expanding opportunities for women."

But she was not done. Just as providing economic opportunity and adequate food and water is a necessary underpinning so, too, is  "access to family planning" [aka abortion] which "broadens the horizons and expands the vision of women everywhere." All the women except those who've been killed in utero, of course.

In an opening moment of solidarity Clinton told her audience,  "Yet we know that Margaret Sanger's work here in the United States and certainly across our globe is not done." That is true. They will target every protective abortion law at home and abroad six days a week and twice on Sunday.

You and I must be just as diligent in opposing everything they stand for as they are in promoting them. And we will.

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